Well these bugs would be rich if they got all the money they will be costing us to get rid of them...Yes we have bed bugs! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Can you hear my scream??? This is going to be quite the adventure so I thought I should document it as we go. It will be the biggest and most consuming project I have done to date and am learning a ton already. I won't give you all the details, you can look online yourself to learn all about these horrid creatures if you desire. But I have been getting weird bites for the last couple months thinking they were from outside, playing in the yard with the boys. But after looking online two days ago to see if my friend's mysterious rash was from bed bugs, I discovered that I had bed bug bites, ran to the bedroom and sure enough the evidence was there. Little tiny "rust" stains on our bed and boxspring, evidence they had found a happy home! We probably picked them up from our traveling adventures this summer. So Gross!
Step 1. Get the mattress to the curb! Yes, we have to buy a new mattress and box spring $$$$
Step 2. Today I will be removing ALL the clothing from our bedroom, dressers, closet etc and rewashing it all and moving it to a room that is bug free until our room is completely de-bugged
Step 3. Order all natural killing product from Dirtworks.com and anxiously await it's arrival
Step 4. Head to Bed Bath and Beyond to purchase a hand steamer, new pillows and lavender cleaning products. ( bed bugs hate heat and lavender) I need to steam all couches, chairs and carpets and spray the cabinets and closets, drawers, floors etc with lavender essential oils.
So that's today's jobs!! Stay tuned....
4 comments:
o michelle! i'm so sorry! let us know if there's any way that we might be able to help!! i'll be praying for you today!
We sympathize! We've had them here in Malawi a couple times. =( We get them because we have lots of bats in the area and they carry bed bugs. Any bats hanging out in your roof? Hope all the cleaning goes well!
What a nightmare! My friend with 7 kids had a lice epidemic in their house once, you can now imagine a little bit of what she had to go through! Just a season though, 2 months from now, it will be as if it never happened. The bright side.... your house is going to be super clean!
Getting rid of bed bugs doesn’t need to be costly. Less than a year ago, we had the same problem with bed bug infestation that we couldn’t handle ourselves. We called pest control and they immediately resolved, what seemed to be, our endless battle with bed bugs. Thank goodness for those guys! They even restore everything into place.
Selena Slough
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